Our Sunday funday wedding shower

So in my last post I said that I was going to go back to document what I have been up too while on my mini blog vacation, and I still plan to but I wanted this post to be about the wedding shower that my lovely friends Ashley and Amber threw us last Sunday.

Just look at all the cute decorations! It looked like Pinterest exploded in there and I loved it. A make your own bloody mary bar, mimosas, french toast sticks, mac & cheese in a baby mason jar, just a few of my favorite things. 

It truly was exactly what Jim and I wanted, a party with all of our closest friends.

As I'm typing this I'm listening to Death Cab For Cutie and getting nostalgic, so indulge me for 2 seconds. Just look at these fabulous ladies, who really pulled out all the stops for us. It's such a great feeling knowing that your friends will gladly do that for you.

You can't really tell from this pic, but Amber decided to throw in a few slightly embarrassing pictures in our little collage. 

Playing the newlywed game, each question seemed to get more and more inappropriate thanks to Ashley. 

Ha the look on Jim's face as he holds up his sign that says 'Spice Girls' is priceless, because he knows they were my fave!

Lexi

South Padre

In December Jim and I went on a mini family vacation to stay at his parents condo in South Padre. The island was totally deserted and it was perfect. It was the first vacation in a long time where I was actually able to relax. Normally vacations are packed full of days spent trying to squeeze as many events, visits, and sights as possible. This vacation was different in that we came to see the ocean, and when we looked out the window we could see it, no additional travelling required.

Jim's step mom and dad

Check out Jim's beard! Love that thing.

Jim and I with his brother and sister in law

Pirate Jim

Insane pirate Justin

The girls

Relaxing in the condo

Back of our condo

Pool, where we spent most nights

Cooking!

I'm very passionate about shrimp!

Lexi

Here we go...again

Ok so I need to say that I just spent 5 minutes trying to remember my domain name... lexiandthecity? lexandthecity.com? lexandthecityaustin.com? Nope. I finally remembered it, lexandthecityaustin.blogspot.com. 

The last time I posted was on December 8, 2012. I'm not sure why I took the break, I didn't intend to, it just happened. I went to South Padre for a few days in December and remember thinking when I got there, 'oh, I should have done one last post before I left, and said in the post that I would be leaving. Oh well, not like anyone reads this thing anyway.' And then that thought stayed with me, 'no one reads this thing anyway, why bother?'. 

I think I've used these few months away to decide if I really wanted to keep my blog. I read a post on one of my favorite blogs that was about blogging (that's right, blogging about blogging). She said that unless you LOVE blogging, you shouldn't do it. That seemed really harsh to me and I think it probably pushed me further away. I felt like I shouldn't be blogging because I don't LOVE LOVE it, I just enjoy it. 

I think the other thing that pushed me away was thinking that I had to update this blog at least twice a week. I'm not sure where I got that number from, but I felt pressured to stick with it and was disappointed in myself when I didn't. 

Those are all the reasons that I kept silent over the last few months, and here are the reasons that I am breaking that silence. 

After I started the blog I felt like I really started to figure out my particular style and saw so many possibilities in my closet that I had never seen before. It was also a great way for me to remember the great outfits I came up with. All of my favorite outfits were cataloged in my blog. In the past I would put together an awesome outfit that I loved, and then forget about it the next day and never wear that combo again. In the months that I haven't been blogging, I've lost inspiration. I'm in an outfit rut where I can't be creative with anything that I have. I've been just rotating the same 10 dress shirts to work all the time, and can't ever find anything cute to wear on the weekend. Tragic, I know.

I don't want to lose that inspiration I found when I started blogging, which is what gave me the push I needed to decide to keep my little blog baby (it's a girl). 

I've decided that the only rule I must stick to going forward, is that I have to enjoy doing this. I'm not going to worry about how often I update, or how many people are reading this. If I'm going to do this, it needs to be for me and not for my audience (sorry!). 

Anyway, I've got so many pictures from the last few months just sitting on my computer that I think I'm going to spend the next few weeks recapping what I've been doing while on my mini vacation from blogging. So get ready, because here we go... again. 

Lexi